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By any chance does anyone have a big and good quality image of this wonderful thangka of the Refuge tree with Rinpoche? Thank you for reminding of this thangka, Here is the link to the 27 Mb hi-res file https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CFOnVADyDP4_hiJiABD9UG7utn7Jn4c4/view?usp=sharing Hope this tim...

gb9810 wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 24, 2018 4:01 pm

FYI:

https://mailchi.mp/fcd6ce0311f1/pema-ch ... 08e912d1b6

Glad to see she admitted it.

Ruth Gamble’s Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: The Third Karmapa and the Invention of a Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2018) is a thorough and accessible study on reincarnation, the tulku tradition in Tibet, and the life of the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorjé (1284-1339). In this book, Gamble g...

Book Signing and Talk with Malcolm Smith http://tsegyalgar.org/localcenters/tsegyalgareast/tsegyalgareastcale/book-signing-and-talk-with-malcolm-smith/ Location: Tsegyalgar East, Schoolhouse Gompa, 18 Schoolhouse Rd., Conway, MA 01341 Date: Saturday, October 20, 2018 Time: 7:00pm Free and Open to t...

Congrats Malcolm!

TheSynergist wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 24, 2018 1:41 am

If that statement about Pema Chödrön is correct, that is very disappointing, though not surprising. Pema Chödrön has taught alongside Mipham and her silence about the scandal has IMHO been suspicious. *sigh*

Pema Chödrön's silence was a cop out.

Thanks you two!

I don’t think so. What is paramount is the teacher-student relationship. The vajrayana was originally a personal and secret practice. You don’t need to be part of any community to practice. On the contrary, participation in a community probably increases the opportunities for breaching samaya. Yes ...

Hi everyone,

I have a friend that is looking for a thangka of the longchen nyingthig refuge tree. I've found many posters and postcards, but no thangkas. I'm also wary of the ones I've found on ebay as the inconography may be incorrect.

Cany anyone point me in the right direction?

You aren't actually saying anything but seem to be chastising others for talking, Do you see benefit in re-hashing lama dramas? How so? I'm just asking you to define what exactly your issue is with the thread, or with the handling of the scandals generally. He wants to sweep it all under the rug an...

A Look At The #MeToo Movement In The Shambhala Buddhist Community

Buddhist nonprofit spent half a million dollars on leader they knew was accused of sexual assault

Tenma wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 12, 2018 5:24 pm

How intense is this practice? I found a group of ChNN'S followers in Texas that are able to transmit the practice,...

I'm not aware of a DC group in Texas:

http://tsegyalgar.org/localcenters/

Survival of the Richest - The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind by Douglas Rushkoff That’s when it hit me: At least as far as these gentlemen were concerned, this was a talk about the future of technology. Taking their cue from Elon Musk colonizing Mars, Peter Thiel reversing the aging proces...

jnanasutra wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 12, 2018 3:21 pm

On the NYTimes today:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/nyre ... nduct.html

That was yesterday and was linked to earlier in this thread.

What? Yes, it's incredibly weird and nonsensical that Shambhala makes their students vow not to have any other teachers. This is a strategy of containment and damage control. Do you think that strategy was specifically meant to contain sex scandals/abuse allegations, or just damage control as a who...

Forget the sex activity of any individual. If Shambhala really makes people vow to not have any other teachers that puts it in the same catagory as the NKT imo. That’s institutionally a much bigger deal. I don’t understand how these two women can drop that bomb and just skip over it. What? Yes, it'...

indian philosophy of language

Interview by Richard Marshall.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/indian-p ... -language/

...Avalokitesvara whose mantra, often called for short "Mani" or "Six Syllables" (Yi-ge Drug-ma), is the universally known "Om Mani Padme Hum." These Sanskrit words have almost always been translated as "Hail to the Jewel in the Lotus," or something similar. However, we believe that, in origin, the...

Often when people think of Tibetan Buddhism they have a limited vision of that social reality, perhaps one that imagines monks sitting in meditation or focused on the Dalai Lama. Rarely is the historical role of female Buddhist masters central to one’s understanding of contemporary Tibetan life. In ...